Network and Communication Security:HTTPS, IP Sec, DNS-Sec
Section 8.4
COS 461: Computer NetworksSpring 2011
Mike Freedmanhttp://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring11/cos461/
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Recall basic security properties
• Confidentiality: Concealment of information or resources
• Authenticity: Identification and assurance of origin of info
• Integrity: Trustworthiness of data or resources in terms of preventing improper and unauthorized changes
• Availability: Ability to use desired info or resource
• Non-repudiation: Offer of evidence that a party indeed is sender or a receiver of certain information
• Access control: Facilities to determine and enforce who is allowed access to what resources (host, software, network, …)
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Use of encryption and MAC/signatures
Confidentiality (Encryption)
Sender: • Compute C = EncK(M)
• Send CReceiver:• Recover M = DecK(C)
Auth/Integrity (MAC / Signature)
Sender: • Compute s = SigK(Hash (M))
• Send <M, s>Receiver:• Computer s’ = VerK(Hash (M))
• Check s’ == s
These are simplified forms of the actual algorithms
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HTTP Security
“Securing” HTTP• Threat model
– Eavesdropper listening on conversation (confidentiality)– Man-in-the-middle modifying content (integrity)– Adversary impersonating desired website (authentication,
and confidentiality)
• Enter HTTP-S– HTTP sits on top of secure channel (SSL/TLS)– All (HTTP) bytes written to secure channel are encrypted
and authenticated– Problem: What is actually authenticated to prevent
impersonation? Which keys used for crypto protocols?
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Learning a valid public key
• What is that lock?
– Securely binds domain name to public key (PK)
• Believable only if you trust the attesting body
• Bootstrapping problem: Who to trust, and how to tell if this message is actually from them?
– If PK is authenticated, then any message signed by that PK cannot be forged by non-authorized party
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How to authenticate PK7
Transport Layer Security (TLS)(Replaces SSL)
• Send new random value, list of supported ciphers
• Send pre-secret, encrypted under PK
• Create shared secret key from pre-secret and random
• Switch to new symmetric-key cipher using shared key
• Send new random value, digital certificate with PK
• Create shared secret key from pre-secret and random
• Switch to new symmetric-key cipher using shared key
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Comments on HTTPS
• Note that HTTPS authenticates server, not content– If CDN (Akamai) serves content over HTTPS for its customers,
customer must trust Akamai not to change content
• Switch to symmetric-key crypto after public-key ops– Symmetric-key crypto much faster (100-1000x)– PK crypto can encrypt message only approx. as large as key
(1024 bits – this is a simplification) – afterwards uses hybrid
• HTTPS on top of TCP, so reliable byte stream– Can leverage fact that transmission is reliable to ensure:
each data segment received exactly once– Adversary can’t successfully drop or replay packets
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IP Security
IP Security
• There are range of app-specific security mechanisms
– eg. TLS/HTTPS, S/MIME, PGP, Kerberos,
• But security concerns that cut across protocol layers
• Implement by the network for all applications?
Enter IPSec!
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IPSec
• General IP Security mechanism framework
• Allows one to provide– Access control, integrity, authentication, originality,
and confidentiality
• Applicable to different settings– Narrow streams: Specific TCP connections
– Wide streams: All packets between two gateways
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IPSec Uses
Benefits of IPSec
• If in a firewall/router:– Strong security to all traffic crossing perimeter– Resistant to bypass
• Below transport layer: transparent to applications
• Can be transparent to end users
• Can provide security for individual users
• Helps secure routing architecture
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IP Security Architecture• Specification quite complex (incl. RFC 2401, 2402, 2406, 2408)
– Mandatory in IPv6, optional in IPv4
• Two security header extensions:– Authentication Header (AH)
• Connectionless integrity, origin authentication
– MAC over most header fields and packet body
• Anti-replay protection
– Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)• These properties, plus confidentiality
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Encapsulating
Security
Payload (ESP)
• Transport mode: Data encrypted, but not header– After all, network headers needed for routing!– Can do traffic analysis but is efficient
– Good for host-to-host traffic
• Tunnel mode: Encrypts entire IP packet– Add new header for next hop
– Good for VPNs, gateway-to-gateway security
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Why is replay protection hard?• Replay protection goal: Eavesdropper can’t capture
encrypted packet and duplicate later– Easy with TLS/HTTP on TCP: Reliable byte stream– But IP Sec at packet layer; transport may not be reliable
• IP Sec solution: Sliding window on sequence #’s– All IPSec packets have a 64-bit monotonic sequence number– Receiver keeps track of which seqno’s seen before
• [lastest – windowsize + 1 , latest] ; windowsize typically 64 packets
– Accept packet if • seqno > latest (and update latest)• Within window but has not been seen before
– If reliable, could just remember last, and accept iff last + 1• But IP packets can be reordered. Reordering could be particularly bad if
QoS and low-priority. Hence, some windows are 1024 packets.
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DNS Security
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Hierarchical naming in DNS
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com edu org ac uk zw arpa
unnamed root
bar
west east
foo my
ac
cam
usr
in-addr
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generic domains country domains
my.east.bar.edu usr.cam.ac.uk
12.34.56.0/24
DNS Root Servers• 13 root servers (see http://www.root-servers.org/)• Labeled A through M
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B USC-ISI Marina del Rey, CAL ICANN Los Angeles, CA
E NASA Mt View, CAF Internet Software C. Palo Alto, CA (and 17 other locations)
I Autonomica, Stockholm (plus 3 other locations)
K RIPE London (+ Amsterdam, Frankfurt)
m WIDE Tokyo
A Verisign, Dulles, VAC Cogent, Herndon, VA (also Los Angeles)D U Maryland College Park, MDG US DoD Vienna, VAH ARL Aberdeen, MDJ Verisign, ( 11 locations)
DoS attacks on DNS Availability
• Feb. 6, 2007– Botnet attack on the 13 Internet DNS root servers
– Lasted 2.5 hours
– None crashed, but two performed badly:• g-root (DoD), l-root (ICANN)• Most other root servers use anycast
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Defense: Replication and Caching
source: wikipedia
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DoS attacks on end-host using DNS
580,000 open resolvers on Internet (Kaminsky-Shiffman’06)
DNSServerDoS
SourceDoS
Target
DNS QuerySrcIP: DoS Target
(60 bytes)
EDNS Reponse
(3000 bytes)
40 amplification
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attacker
Preventing amplication attacks
ip spoofed packets
repl
ies
victim
openamplifier
preventip spoofing
disableopen amplifiers
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DNS Integrity:Do you trust the TLD operators?
• If domain name doesn’t exist, DNS should return NXDOMAIN (non-existant domain) msg
• Verisign instead creates wildcard DNS record for all .com and .net domain names not yet registered– September 15 – October 4, 2003
• Redirection for these domain names to Verisign web portal: “to help you search”– and serve you ads…and get “sponsored” search
– Verisign and online advertising companies make money…
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DNS Integrity:Was answer from authoritative server?• DNS cache poisoning
– Client asks for www.evil.com– Nameserver authoritative for www.evil.com returns
additional section for (www.cnn.com, 1.2.3.4, A)– Thanks! I won’t bother check what I asked for
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• To prevent cache poisoning, client remembers domain and 16-bit request ID (used to demux UDP response)
• But…
• DNS hijacking– 16 bits: 65K possible IDs
• What rate to enumerate all in 1 sec? 64B/packet• 64*65536*8 / 1024 / 1024 = 32 Mbps
– Prevention: Also randomize the DNS source port• Windows DNS alloc’s 2500 DNS ports: ~164M possible IDs• Would require 80 Gbps• Kaminsky attack: this source port…wasn’t random after all
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DNS Integrity:Was answer from authoritative server?
Let’s strongly believe the answer!Enter DNSSEC
• DNSSEC protects against data spoofing and corruption
• DNSSEC also provides mechanisms to authenticate servers and requests
• DNSSEC provides mechanisms to establish authenticity and integrity
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PK-DNSSEC (Public Key)
• The DNS servers sign the hash of resource record set with its private (signature) keys
• Public keys can be used to verify the SIGs
• Leverages hierarchy:
– Authenticity of nameserver’s public keys is established by a signature over the keys by the parent’s private key
– In ideal case, only roots’ public keys need to be distributed out-of-band
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Verifying the tree
stub resolver
Question: www.cnn.com ?
www.cnn.com A ?
resolver
. (root)www.cnn.com A ?
ask .com server SIG (ip addr and PK of .com server)
.comwww.cnn.com A ?
ask cnn.com server SIG (ip addr and PK of cnn.com server)
cnn.com
www.cnn.com A ?
SIG (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
add to cache
src.cs.princeton.edudns.cs.princeton.edu
transaction signatures
slave serverstransaction signatures
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